"Black Forest to the Danube" Package Explores Germany's Southern Sights
Tour Visits Historic Highlights of Germany Cities Mainz, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Augsburg and Regensbu
AUGSBURG, Germany, June 30, 2008. Historic Highlights of Germany, a consortium of 14 historic German cities, has announced a five-day package that travels from the deep woodlands and rustic villages of the Black Forest in southwestern Germany to the waters of the Danube as it cuts across Bavaria. Along the way, travelers experience some of Germany's most ancient and historic cities rich with medieval abbeys and cathedrals, baroque castles and histories dating back 2,000 years to the Roman Empire. The package includes visits to Mainz, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Augsburg and Regensburg, four nights' hotel accommodations, breakfast daily, Frankfurt airport transfers, detailed tour information and a choice of an Avis rental car EUR409 ($645 ) or first class rail tickets EUR509 ($802 ) between cities. In several cities, visitors also receive "welcome cards" for free or discounted access to public transportation and many attractions.
The first overnight, in Mainz, allows guests coming from nearby Frankfurt airport the chance to recover from their overseas flight as well as visit the city's architectural highlights such as the six-towered Cathedral of St. Martin and the 1,000-year-old St. Stephen's Church. En route to Freiburg -- with its Gothic Cathedral encircled by a medieval Old Quarter with narrow, meandering lanes and a vibrant marketplace -- participants stop in Heidelberg to take in the city's castle, among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps. The program continues to Augsburg, nicknamed the "German Renaissance City" for its wealth of buildings from that era, and ends in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Regensburg with its meticulously preserved medieval houses, towers, churches and abbeys, and a City Hall and cathedral that escaped attack during World War II. Hotels throughout the tour are conveniently located near rail stations in each city and include the Novotel (Mainz); InterCity Hotel (Freiburg); Hotel Riegele (Augsburg) and Karmeliten Hotel (Regensburg).
Tours are offered by TOEUROPE GERMANY. For detailed information on these and other German "Dream Routes," visit Historic Highlights of Germany at www.historicgermany.com or www.germanydreamroutes.com. Bookings can be made online at www.toeurope.eu, by calling Nonstop Travel at (800) 949-6362 or through local travel agents.
Historic Highlights of Germany is a tourism consortium comprising Augsburg, Erfurt, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Koblenz, Mainz, M"unster, Osnabr"uck, Potsdam, Regensburg, Rostock, Trier, Wiesbaden and W"urzburg - cities rich in historic and cultural heritage. Contact Historic Highlights of Germany at [email protected] or visit www.historicgermany.com.
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